heroic
adjective
Also heroical of, relating to, or characteristic of a hero or heroine.
unheroic
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a word derived from
heroic.
Example Sentences
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In Aviv’s view, Munro’s work accumulated power even as her family unraveled and her own unheroic passivity was exposed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
His incidents are of unheroic illness, and blundering delicacy, and helplessness.
From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2021
“Hair askew, mascara smeared,” Ellen is the tireless, deeply endearing, hilariously unheroic heroine of “State of Terror.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 8, 2021
Eventually bin Laden died a unheroic death, surrounded by his wives and kids in a squalid suburban compound in Pakistan.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2021
And as for the hero—well, we will not say what he was doing, something most particularly unheroic at any rate.
From The Suprising Adventures of Sir Toady Lion With Those of General Napoleon Smith by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
